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Governing floods and riots: insurance, risk, and racism in the postwar United States
Zur "Beherrschung" von Überschwemmungen und "Riots": Versicherung, Risiko und Rassismus in den USA
"In the late 1960s, the United States Federal Government resorted to publically funded insurance systems to deal with two quite different problems: floods and riots. Both programs were administered by the same agency, both relied heavily on the spatial mapping of risk, and both were haunted by problems of moral hazard. Curiously, and most importantly, however, riots as well as floods were viewed a…
Creator
- Lübken, Uwe
Subject
- Economics
- History
- Social History, Historical Social Research
- Economic Sectors
- North America
- racism
- resistance
- revolution
- United States of America
- social problem
- …
- Resistance movement
- Revolution
- Economics
- History
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Creator
- Lübken, Uwe
Subject
- Economics
- History
- Social History, Historical Social Research
- Economic Sectors
- North America
- racism
- resistance
- revolution
- United States of America
- social problem
- …
- Resistance movement
- Revolution
- Economics
- History
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Creation date
- 2010
- 2010
Places
- Deutschland
- Germany
Provenance
- Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Source
- Historical Social Research, 35(4)
Identifier
- oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/32139
- 0172-6404
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/32139
- urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-321397
- https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.35.2010.4.275-288
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/32139/ssoar-hsr-2010-No. 4 = No. 134-lubken-Governing_floods_and_riots_insurance.pdf?sequence=1
- http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/G734GCJEQH6PXDLG7GOCBRXFTB4QASRW
Extent
- Seite(n): 275-288
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- eng
- eng
Year
- 2010
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-20T22:32:50.043Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-20T22:32:50.043Z